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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1583817, member: 41665&quot;]There&#039;s extensive regulation of IRAs, medoraman. PM IRAs don&#039;t exist in secret, I think you know.&nbsp; So again: where do I find that data, aggregated?</p><p><br /></p><p>Guy at my LCS actually guessed the number of PM IRAs that I came up with, ~100k.&nbsp; He insists the retail ownership of GLD is 100x higher than ICI stats show (~12k) but he has no background in financial services. He was evasive on my gold queries but basically admitted not 1 in 100 customers is buying Au now.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The best metric for &quot;shoeshine boys&quot; is probably custodians of PM IRAs that have to report quarterly, they MUST report accts, balances, etc. </p><p>Tom Cloud says there are ~10 cos; the three I mentioned are still the bulk of the PM IRA mkt.&nbsp; He outlines fees, too:</p><p><a href="http://etfdailynews.com/2012/11/29/tom-cloud-wholesale-gold-inventories-evaporating-nysearcagld/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://etfdailynews.com/2012/11/29/tom-cloud-wholesale-gold-inventories-evaporating-nysearcagld/" rel="nofollow">http://etfdailynews.com/2012/11/29/tom-cloud-wholesale-gold-inventories-evaporating-nysearcagld/</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I started a new thread on the PENSCO webinar scheduled for<b> December 6, 2012 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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